Mark Shepard, "Modern-Jedi," Songwriter

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Song # 164    Composition date: 5/10/1991
Commentary Date: 11/25/2007

CD: Visions & Voices

Commentary:
I had started to do some serious work on myself and came across a book by the Title, "If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him!" The title of the book was taken from a Zen Buddhist Koan. A Koan is a paradox a teacher assigns to a student. The student then goes off and ponders the Koan until he gets an insight. Anyway, the point of the book was that the responsibility for change is not the therapist's. It is the client's.

It's not the therapist's job to heal the client. It's the clients job.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan had great coaches but ultimately He had to play the game not the coach.

This was one of my first wake up calls to start taking "response-ability" and stop being a victim. This is the process we in NLP call "getting to cause" or being on the "Cause side of the Cause and Effect equation". Anyway, my friend Joel Arthur guided the cool Manhattan Transfer style back up vocals with Andrea Nettleton and Diane Legro. A word of warning, I've had people misunderstand this song. It's not about going around killing buddhas! It is about owning your own process and not abdicating it to some guru or god...or government. - Mark

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